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...million voted by the House subcommittee last week will be used as partial payment for a U.S. Army plan to restructure the Salvadoran forces through training of crack infantry troops and aggressive junior officers. American advisers hope that the newly appointed Defense Minister, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, will be better than his predecessor in adopting sophisticated tactics and strengthening morale...
...leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, known as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), are also in disarray following an internal dispute that left two of their leaders dead. But they still dominate almost half of the countryside. Since the conflict began in 1979, they have disrupted the Salvadoran economy by inflicting up to $600 million in damages to farms, factories and utilities...
...vowing to "draw the line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce a Nicaraguan defector who would reveal evidence of outside control of the Salvadoran rebellion; the young soldier dutifully appeared before a group of American reporters and then denied the entire scenario...
...taken by the Carter Administration. The State Department has worked to foster centrist democratic institutions in El Salvador and prodded the right-leaning government there into making some reforms. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders attempted to negotiate with Nicaragua an end to that regime's support for the Salvadoran rebels in return for U.S. aid and a pledge of nonintervention. His overtures were spurned by the Nicaraguans...
...mess. We needed more economic aid early on, and we needed the military aid the President asked for last year at the time he asked for it. We lost momentum. When Congress turns down presidential requests for aid, it encourages the guerrillas to keep fighting. It also discourages the Salvadoran army. The guerrillas think Washington is where they're going to win the war. They know damn well they're not going to win it here...